Hillsdale College on TRIGGERnometry

You can spend three hours in the cinema watching Christopher Nolan's movie adaptation of The Odyssey. Or you can spend that same three hours understanding the actual poem for free, guided by a Hillsdale College professor. Hillsdale College runs free online courses on the books that shape the Western tradition taught by their own faculty using the same material their students study on campus. The newest course covers home as The Odyssey. Professor Benedict Whelan walks through it. Courage, loyalty, leadership, temptation, family, and what it actually means to go home. It has held an audience for close to 3,000 years. That doesn't happen by accident. The scene that changes how you read the whole thing is Calypso offering Odysseus immortality if he stays with her and he turns it down. He picks a mortal life, an aging wife, a home that might not even want him back anymore. That's the entire argument of the book in one scene. There are more than 40 of these courses and I couldn't recommend them more highly. Go to hillsdale.edu slash trigger to enroll. It's totally free. read the classics, study the West. That's hailsdale.edu slash trigger.